Strange

Famous quotes containing the word strange:

    O! grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
    And careful hours with time’s deformèd hand
    Have written strange defeatures in my face.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Alone he rides, alone,
    The fair and fatal king:
    Dark night is all his own,
    That strange and solemn thing.
    Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)

    Since time immemorial, one the dry earth, scraped to the bone, of this immeasurable country, a few men travelled ceaselessly, they owned nothing, but they served no one, free and wretched lords in a strange kingdom. Janine did not know why this idea filled her with a sadness so soft and so vast that she closed her eyes. She only knew that this kingdom, which had always been promised to her would never be her, never again, except at this moment.
    Albert Camus 1013–1960, French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Janine in Algeria, in The Fall, p. 27, Gallimard (9157)